Seattle Seahawks’ Richard Sherman speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Renton, Wash. The Seahawks play the Denver Broncos in the NFL football Super Bowl on Feb. 2. (Elaine Thompson, The Associated Press)

Good evening, Denver Broncos fans. The Super Bowl train keeps on rolling — so this is a big update with so much of the media now focusing on Denver and Seattle. This is your Broncos Insider Newsletter:

"I AM NOT A VILLAIN," Richard Sherman said Wednesday in the locker room. The Denver Post’s Troy Renck, reporting from Renton, Wash., where the Seahawks practice, writes: "Sherman is easy to hate if you are a 49ers fan. And he’s easy to hate if you want decorum and sportsmanship, believing sports are at their best when Capri-Suns and orange slices are passed out after games. If that suits you, and you don’t like kids on your lawn, Sherman’s not your guy. But is he a bad guy?" http://dpo.st/1bjbdyU

IN HIS OWN WORDS: Richard Sherman pens an op-ed for MMQB: "It was loud, it was in the moment, and it was just a small part of the person I am. I don’t want to be a villain, because I’m not a villainous person. When I say I’m the best cornerback in football, it’s with a caveat: There isn’t a great defensive backfield in the NFL that doesn’t have a great front seven. … To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field — don’t judge a person’s character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family." http://bit.ly/1eZIpzY … RELATED: Greg Howard’s excellent take on Sherman from Deadspin (warning on some sensitive language).

Nathaniel Wentz, a 17-year-old high school quarterback and lifelong Broncos fan, wore a Denver jersey to his job at Odyssey 1, a family entertainment center in Tacoma, after the manager invited employees to wear jerseys to work.

Wentz was told to go home and change. His father called, asking to speak to the owner, but never received a call back. The younger Wentz stayed home and found out the next day that he had been fired.

One silver lining in this: Wentz said he doesn’t have to worry about working during the Super Bowl.

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.